This actually looks like the building Gary Cooper blew up in the movie adaptation of The Fountainhead............
Posted on 03/21/2017 12:39:14 PM PDT by Lorianne
Because classical architecture is pretty.
Leftists worship ugliness.
They're affordable for somebody, or they would be vacant. Maybe it's being rich that is making the residents happy.
Because it’s really expensive, generally short, and wastes a ton of space on pillars and grand entrances. In general building get built because somebody wants to DO something with it, usually the inside of it.
Reason: Communist party goals #22 and 23.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
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Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Post WWII architecture really sucks. Go to most any city and you really have no idea where you are. All the same. Ugly East German inspired concrete slab architecture. No family owned stores or businesses. Want to grab a bite? Pandora, Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang.
LOL...I had the same thoughts!
But then there is always this:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brutalist+architechture&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images
Also, because it is more expensive?
But I agree. :)
Good point.
Mass production saves time and money.
I noticed that practically all those buildings were bare concrete on the outside.
If they were painted in bright colors in diverse places they might actually look welcoming. As they are they look like prisons on some sci-fi movie set...............
This actually looks like the building Gary Cooper blew up in the movie adaptation of The Fountainhead............
I suspect the older buildings are closer to the center of the city so that is a big reason why they are more expensive.
If you go by HGTV, the modern industrial look is in. I wonder how much of it is because it is cheaper to make.
I have to agree with you there. I have met very few on the left who appreciate traditional architecture.
Of course it does not have to be either or. There are good and bad examples of both. But the article cites studies that people have a clear preference for good traditional architecture.
Not surprising. Just look at the precious snowflakes getting advanced degrees in one of the fill-in-the-blank studies categories. They're all desperately sniffing around, looking for some previously unrevealed trace of oppression, discrimination, marginalization, perceived slight, you-name-it, so they have something mildly unique to base their thesis on. The longer you're in higher ed, the more pressure to develop unique research. Even if you have to make it up.
Yep. Everything same same, including one-size-fits-all government.
Except, in “The Fountainhead”, the sleek modern lines were interrupted with add-on Grecian Columns and Porticoes.
Which is why Howard blew them up! :-)
When historians 200 years in the future look back, they will define ours as the Materialist Age. Whether politically Left or Right - seemingly very different positions in our present terms, both will still be seen to have circled around the main question of maximizing economic efficiency, who controls it, and who benefits from it.
A corollary to this will be about DEBT - and how it was spread around the world as part of the Materialist Age. It will be about how debt has twisted society and people’s lives and actions in thousands of different ways.
Many things in society or ugly because the overriding focus on Materialism and feeding it with debt.
Classical architecture stinks, and there's nothing even remotely compelling about it.
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These are two of my favorites buildings in New Orleans, St. Joseph's Church on Tulane Avenue, and the chapel at Loyola University.
Anytime I passed these buildings on my bike, I just had to stop and marvel at how magnificent they are.
Had to shrink that second one of the outside of St. Joseph's down so the mods don't get mad at me for posting giant panoramic pictures. Hated to do that, I love that church!
Our city recently knocked down an old (well, early- to mid-60s construction) Brutalist theater that had been part of a large state institution. There were some who wanted to save and renovate it, but had no real plan to raise the money needed. The city said, nope, you don’t have the money, the city isn’t spending that kind of money, it’s gone. It was ugly, and would have been ridiculously expensive to renovate and operate, and would have been an ongoing large maintenance cost.
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